Mary Shelley's classic on man's blasphemous attempt to create life is accompanied by commentary on the author and the stylistic, thematic, and mythic aspects of the novel.

A roman à clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the ...

Romance, passion and intrigue on a pirate ship

Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new ...

The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.

A collection of critical essays on Huxley, his satires, and fiction works with a chronology of events in the author's life.

Living by their wits in the steamy slums of Bahia, a gang of orphans and runaways, led by fifteen-year-old Bullet, spend their time stealing from Brazil's rich and privilaged until public outcry demands their capture.

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception.